To-Do-List Tuesday 7-4-23

From my house to yours:

I hope yours is safe and enjoyable. Last year I had Quilt of Valor presentations to do on the fourth, and it was so hot I almost roasted, so I can’t say I am disappointed to have none to do this year.

As for my to-do list, it went reasonably well.

1) Get the APQ quilt sewn together. Yes, I did.

2) Work on Summer Scrap Challenge. Yes. I finished all the blocks I need to complete the nine rows. 

3) Sew two more Water Colors blocks. Not quite. Although I did quite a bit of cutting and marking, no more blocks are actually put together. 

4) And just for fun, do some charity sewing. I am counting this one as charity sewing since it will most likely get donated:

Here’s my current list of what I’d like to accomplish:

1) Figure out some borders for Scrappy Celebration and get them out on.

2) Get the Summer Scrap Challenge quilt put together.

3) Finish the Oklahoma quilt.

4) Two more Water Colors blocks.

5) Cut out a table runner.

We’ll see how it goes. There is a Shop Hop Thursday, Friday, and Saturday—they are actually calling it a Poker Run—that I am going to try and do. There are only three shops participating, but two of the shops are in towns on opposite sides of Victoria, so it will consume a day at least. I also have some customer commitments, but I am feeling optimistic. 

I’m linking this to Quilt Schmilt.

Playing Catch Up

Oh my goodness--the customer quilts were stacking up here. It's sort of a feast or famine phenomenon anyway. I may not take in any for week or two, and then people start bringing in three or four at a time, for several days straight. I've been working steadily on getting caught up: 

This one went home Friday:

I took a break yesterday afternoon to work on a couple of my own. I had ten fat quarters cut for the Oklahoma pattern

and I started sewing the blocks.

I really like these fabrics. They are from Blank Quilting. The pattern only requires 20 blocks, and each block just has three seams, so this one won't take too long......unlike this one:

I also got the final row added to this one. I was pretty happy to get all the blocks together. I'm still thinking about a border.....or maybe no border. The original pattern doesn't have a border, but I think mine might need one just to make it look more finished. It's another step, but at this point, it doesn't matter if I spend a little more time on it.

Baby, It’s Hot Outside

Alexa says it’s 99 outside, and I can believe it. The forecast for the next seven days is more of the same. This is my patio:

The lizards aren’t even running away. Two good thing about the heat: the grass isn’t growing, and the watermelon has been sooooo good.

I went to Yorktown yesterday and got the Aggie fabric I was wanting. I sent it home with Janice so she can piece the quilt. The shop had a basket of fat quarters on the counter—$1.65 each—I picked out ten that I think will work together.

I have a pattern picked out for it. 

I’m hoping I’ll have some free time to work on it soon. 

I have a couple of table runner patterns I want to make too. 

I had hopes of doing the flag one before the 4th of July…..maybe Labor Day is more realistic. For the second one, I have a Lori Holt jelly roll I want to use, and I bought some solid green today for the background. Although, now that I’m looking at the pattern again, I really like the yellow they used. We’ll see. Janice made me one from that pattern that I still need to quilt, so there’s no short of things to work on. I don’t make many table runners anymore, but I do like them. I think it’s time for a couple of new ones.

To-Do-List Tuesday 6-27-23

Happy Tuesday! It’s been a good week, and there has been just enough productivity to keep me on track. My list was short:

1) Get the APQ quilt sewn together. Not quite, but I’m about half way done.

A day or two of dedicated sewing will get this one finished.

2) Work on Summer Scrap Challenge. I spent some time yesterday sewing blocks together, I have four rows done, and five more to go.

3) Sew two more blocks for Water Colors quilt along. I got five more done. 

What’s on the list for this week? More of the same. These are the three projects I feel most motivated to spend time on, so I’m going to carry them forward to this week.

1) Get the APQ quilt sewn together.

2) Work on Summer Scrap Challenge.

3) Sew two more Water Colors blocks.

4) And just for fun, do some charity sewing.

I’m linking this to Quilt Schmilt.

I have my mammogram this morning. It has officially been rescheduled three times, so I am past due. I rescheduled it once, and the hospital has rescheduled it twice. When I went a few weeks ago, they said they couldn’t do it since it hadn’t been six weeks since my last Covid vax. You would think they would tell you things like that when you schedule the test. There are only two testing places in town, so it takes several months to get an appointment. I’m trying not to get frustrated, but this is silly. In a perfect world, there would be mobile units that would go through the neighborhoods offering mammograms free of charge to everyone. A pipe dream, I guess. Anyway, if you haven’t scheduled yours, please consider this a friendly reminder. 

After my mammogram, I am going to make a quick trip to Yorktown. My local LQS is out of A&M fabrics, and the shop in Yorktown has some. I want to make a quilt for the church auction in October, so I have plenty of time to get it done. My friend Janice said she would piece it for me, so I only have to quilt and bind it. 

Weekend Update

It was such a nice weekend—very low key, but still nice. I worked at my shop on Saturday finishing up a customer quilt.

The thread color is really a lot for the white background, but she likes the thread to show. If I have time today, I will get it off the frame and get it trimmed. More likely, it will be tomorrow.

I also worked on getting Scrappy Celebration put together.

I think I got five rows done…..it is a real pain with all the intersections and opposing seams. 

Oh, I kept falling asleep on the couch Saturday night. I finally gave up and went to bed. After church Sunday, I laid down and slept about an hour and a half. I think I have been exhausted, and I can’t seem to get caught up. I felt so much better after my nap, I went to the sewing room and worked on these: 

My goal for the week was to get two blocks done, but I actually did five. That gives me nine total, so I am making progress.

I also added a row to this one:

I made some extra blocks for it as well. I hope to work on this one a little while today. I never did get around to cleaning the bathrooms, so that will probably be job number one today. I got the floors done yesterday, but with the dogs, they need vacuuming daily, so that’s another chore. We’ll see how much sewing time there is…

Saturday

 

Happy weekend everybody! I’ve been really busy, but not too many things are getting finished. I’ve been working on the Water Colors quilt along, but those pieces require so much trimming……I modified my my to-do list to add a goal of getting two of the blocks done this week. I had originally meant to put it on the list, but it got left off. I did settle on a lay out for the Scrappy Celebration blocks

I’ve gotten the first row sewn together, and I’m anxious to see some progress on this one.

I also finished the quilting on the large customer quilt I was working on.

It still needs a close encounter with a lint roller, but that will happen before it goes back to its owner. 

Thursday I went to Galveston to pick up my lost bag.

(Yes, that’s a watermelon on my washing machine…..I haven’t cut it up yet, and I didn’t want it taking up room on the kitchen counter.) I am so happy to report nothing is missing from the bag. Although I was relieved to get everything back, I was exhausted from the drive. I slept nine straight hours Thursday night. I think that’s what I needed, as I feel good now. 

Good News

Thank you to anyone who prayed my lost bag would get returned. I got a text yesterday from the cruise terminal with a picture of my bag asking if it was mine. I am going to Galveston today to retrieve it. It is about 170 miles one way, and they offered to ship (at my cost of course), but I want to get it back, and close the chapter on this. 

My sewing group met Tuesday at church and we put all of the lap quilts we have been working on in the sanctuary to be blessed. This is from the back of the church looking toward the alter,

and this one is standing at the communion rail looking toward the back.

After being blessed, they will be delivered to the local dialysis centers and the two hospitals who do cancer infusions. We had so many, we ended up putting them in the chapel as well. It is the old (original) church built around 1850. We still use it for early services on Sunday mornings.

I worked on a customer quilt yesterday--it is quite big.

There is some extra fullness through the middle, so I am keeping the quilt pretty loose on the frame and using the cup foot on the machine.....so far, so good with that.

The same customer brought me some leftover blocks to use on my charity quilts.

There are only 11 of them, but she brought me some extra fabric, so I will make at least one more. I'm always glad to get a jump start on anything for the charity tops, so these are a welcome gift.